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Nick17700 Author

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iphone 4s videos won't play in Quicktime

Hello. I've recently downloaded the lastest iphone 4s software (this may have nothing to do with the problem I have) and I've discovered that whilst the videos I've taken with the iphone camera video play on the phone itself, they won't play in Quicktime (or Real) when I've synced the phone ot the computer. The audio plays but the screen is black. I've taken 6 videos and all are the same. I've played an earlier video taken some months ago and that does play both sound and pictures. Funny thing is, when i upload the movie file (the one that plays only sound with ablack screen) from my computer to You Tube, the picture magically reappears again!

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

iPhone 4S, Windows Vista

Posted on Sep 30, 2012 9:12 AM

75 replies

Dec 2, 2012 7:17 AM in response to Nick17700

I'm having the exact same problem with videos shot on my iPhone 4S and transferring them to my iPad 1 via iPhoto. Works fine with my iPad 2, but when I try to sync with my iPad 1 I get a prompt that states that the format isn't supported on my iPad ... odd problem.

Dec 6, 2012 7:26 AM in response to Nick17700

Exact same issue. This is totally an apple issue and expecting them to fix it...

markatty

Level 1

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Dec 11, 2012 2:59 PM in response to Nick17700

Downloaded QT 7.7.3 now my video will play but as others are experiencing the video is very choppy. Looks like half the frames are missing. Looks fine on my iPhone 4S. Also when I go to open the video, QT takes over a minute to load and process a 17 second video, before the video starts.

Plinge

Level 1

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Jan 3, 2013 11:16 PM in response to Nick17700

Same issue here too, won't play.

Iphone 5/Mac OS Mountain Lion (10.8) .

The problem must be in the encoding that the phone uses for the .mov format.

I have transcoded the mov video to mp4 and avi and both will play sound as normal but stick on the first frame of the video.

Radix__

Level 1

21 points

Jan 5, 2013 1:07 PM in response to markatty

Finally downloaded 7.7.3.

It runs better, without issues I had before.

(Windows, Premier Pro)

Typoact

Level 1

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Jan 14, 2013 1:17 AM in response to Nick17700

Yes, I have the same problem. I download my iphone 5 videos ot my PC and they play all choppy. Same if I open with itunes. But they play fine through the phone or if I upload them to facebook. Also, my PC re-transfers all my videos everyime I click to download new pictures as it doesn't seem to recognise them as already existing on the computer. I hope the next version of Quicktime fixes this if that is the problem. I am going to uninstall and then download 7.6 as suggested...

Typoact

Level 1

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Jan 14, 2013 3:45 AM in response to Typoact

Nope 7.6 didn't help either.

luborus

Level 1

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Feb 12, 2013 12:53 PM in response to Sebastian Kuhn

You solved my problem, thanks

rachcorp

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Mar 7, 2013 9:11 PM in response to Sebastian Kuhn

thanks for the input Sebastian! it worked! 🙂

Apr 24, 2013 8:48 AM in response to Nick17700

Hi guys, I also have the same problem. I took a video longer than 30 minutes with my iphone 4s, ios 6.1.2. This video's size is 4.6 GB. Works fine on iphone but not working on PC with QT 7.7.3. Can you show me how to convert this video (MOV) to MP4? I've tried some softwares such as Total Video Converter, Format Factory Converter Pro,... but they're not supported.

Thanks!

yrex

Level 1

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Apr 30, 2013 9:53 PM in response to cuongtrinh

Tried a couple of different software to convert but Free CUDA Movie Converter worked the best. Thanks!

gsensel

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May 21, 2013 12:38 PM in response to Nick17700

Tried downgrading to 7.6 and VLC both still choppy (VLC is "different choppy") quote from friend as it was over phone. Still looking for help on this one. Computer runs vista.

mihaSLO

Level 1

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Nov 24, 2013 6:07 AM in response to Nick17700

Hi guys!

I think I have similar problem, but...

When I record video on my iPhone 4 32 GB or wanna watch video on youtube I heAR sound only. no video!

If I download video on my computer everythink plays OK!

I have iOS 7 !

What to do!!?!?!

Jan 2, 2014 8:10 AM in response to Sebastian Kuhn

This solved my problem!! Thanks!

Apr 29, 2014 8:48 AM in response to michellefromflorham park

Michelle, thanks so much Just managed to get my iphone vids to play on my computer using your advice..They just didnt play with quickplayer 7 7 6 but Ive got sound and glorious moving vision with 7.6.🙂

iphone 4s videos won't play in Quicktime